FIRST Teams Visit White House
My son and I had the pleasure of attending the congressional reception that followed the FIRST teams' visit to the White House. There were some terrific demos given by FRC, VEX , and FLL Teams and even an FLL table for my son to take a few practice runs with his team robot.
Added bonus: Autograph pic from Dean Kamen.
Added bonus: Autograph pic from Dean Kamen.
Comments
Chris
While you were standing there, did you ask Dean Kamen to write the forward to our book? :-)
Rick
I was thinking about how Dean has grown FIRST and how it's become a very useful organization - wouldn't it be great if every FIRST team could also add an element to the competition to raise funds to "sponsor" a set of these devices by raising money from sponsors and fund raisers? Each FIRST team would be able to make a real-world impact on a handful of people they probably will never meet.
Just an idea...
I have seen the inventions you mention and they are some of the very real reasons DEKA is tops in my book.
I'm sure there are other better ways to discover but I saw these innovations on Iconoclasts (Sundance Channel) where Dean Kamen and Isabella Rossellini interviewed eachother for the cable show.
Chris
http://www.sundancechannel.com/films/500010358
I do believe that if every team involved in FLL were also adding its support to sponsoring 1 or 2 of these devices, think about the impact FIRST could have on the world! Each team could help raise the funds and FIRST could provide feedback to the teams on how their hard work is impacting those in need.
Rick -
Ha. No but I did mention that TheNXTStep was the first to break the story on his appearance on the Colbert report:
http://thenxtstep.blogspot.com/2006/11/dean-kamen-on-colbert-report.html